First and Last

Kitten watches the ice cube dissolve

Swallowed by the surrounding water

of his steel saucer

He sees

the skeletal crystal shell

carve its clockwise course

and spiral from the center out

to the edges.

He stares, fixates

as the tiny frozen sliver clings to the side of his dish for

that final second when

the last remnants of its cloudy matrix disappear into nothingness

His hollow eyes search inquisitively for the substance of 

what once was.

I share his first experience with endings.